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After the early seventeenth century, the private grounds of great estates tended to become larger, and gatehouses were replaced by lodges, often "a pair of lodges either side of the entry to the main drive" (Yorke 172). This is not quite the pattern that Charles Buxton has followed here, because his pair of quaint Gothic/Scotch Baronial cottages stand at different points of access to his estate at Foxwarren Park. Presumably they were at either end of a long curving drive. Each would have been the home of a servant, perhaps one who had grown too old for more strenuous duties, whose job it was to open the gates to the drive. These lodges are in the same style as the main house, with the same kind of crow-stepped gables and diapered brickwork.

Source

Yorke, Trevor. The Country House Explained. Newbury: Countryside, 2003.